Eyeglass polisher-container.



H. A. HAYDEN.

EYEGLASS POLISHER CONTAINER.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.9 i915.

Patent-ed Dot. 9, 1917.

l To 'all @Qwm may concern;

'HENRY A; HAYDRN, 'or JERSEY Be itknown that I, HENRY aeitizen of the United States, 'and' aresident of 'Jersey' City,fin the 'county of Hud# son and State'of New J ersey, have' 'invented certain new and 'useful'lmprovements 'in Eyeglass Polisher-Containers, of which the following isa specification.

Broadly, the present invention relates to Containers. More particularly,"there is presented as a new article of manufacture, and

as an embodiment ofthe invention, a con-V tainer-polisher for eyeglasses which, while flexible in those respects which lead toim? portant advantages, ijs Qri'gidied in certain' particulars which leadv ,to other important advantages.

In connection with the disclosed embodiment, an embodiment 'at` present 'pre' (A) Some of the advantages'inherentvin"v the feature of flexibility.' may be mentioned as (l) utilityI ofthe container or parts 'thereof as allens-polisher; prevention'of accidental loss of the contents from an open-l mouthed vcontainer;f(3) v`prevention of loss of the container itselffrom a pocket or 'the like even V'when-thetop-mouth of the pocket is downturned'; and (4L) light weight,'cheap ness'A and convenience of use. i i (B) Some of the advantages inherent, in the rigidity' above mentioned maybe eX- pressed as (l) absolute insurance :against lens-breakage; (2) resilient maintenancein a predetermined condition of the otherwise flexible container; (8) direct aid in'` lens'- polishing; and (eythepresence of manipulable means for rendering, by being functionabletoiiare or round the mouth Tof the container, easy and'instantaneousthe insertioninto the container of a-pair ofeye-A l glasses. 1

The advantages mentioned abovelin para graphs (A) and' (B), aswell asv certain other advantages hereinafterhobvious or pointed out, will be clear after a study Vof, the contents of this specification. v In the accompanying drawing Figure 14 is a rearelevation 'of'saidf'em-V bofdment'; v

v Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof;A

' the vterm hereris employed is `merely to an incidentalfeatureof theV illustrative embodiment now to be described;- the scope Vof the invention being delinedby" SA T Fi.

CITY, NRW JnRsRY, AssmfivoRy To v oR-NEWYORK, n. Y.

R'YEGLAss roLIsHER-CQNTAINER.

Specification of' Letters Patent. Patqgntgd 0059, 191.7., 'Appncatiqiifuea Aiigust 9,19i5. serialnaeligios. y 'i Fig. 3v is a verticalsectional view, taken on the line 8-3 of Fig. Il; and

of clarity.

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` It Vshould be notedfthatfwhenfhereinafter the claims.'

The referencejnumerals 1,2, 'andlljreplf resent vrespectivelyfour cuttings of eXible material which are sewn together as indi-I catedj at,5;to constitute the containerprop'er' as here disclosed. Herecuttings land .2vr are of chamois, and cuttings 3 and l are of velvet'een'.

' -Before a mouth-binding tape '46 is stitched.

into place as shown, af rigidifying bow' 7 is inserted into the' 'bag `lestablished by the joined cuttings'l, 2,3 and 4; Then, when here the tape 6 is stitched vinto place, thef bo'ws 'termini 7 and hence the bow itself,y

are anchored `as illustrated in Figs. Sand Oficourselthe termini of the bow vmay be apertured'or perforated so asnot'to interfere'with the stitching in place oftheentire length of` tape 6.v 0r said stitching'fmay the reference merely Asew in placefall subdivisionsV fof the length of tapeVv 6 eX'ce'ptthe'rsubdivisions which'cross ysaid termini. v y

'Thebo'w 7 is preferably madel :of af''at length of spring metal, treatedto or capable ofv forestalling rus'tjThe bowl bn (Fig. 4) of vthe bow is here lmerelya -naturally `resiliently urged curve, due tothe confinement :of the bow within thebag after the' termini are anchored as aforesaid, and whichtends to establish the bag normally :flattened 'als shown in Figs. l and 2. A'Here ,also a' pair of opposite yand symmetrically arranged (relatively vof the showingf'of Fig. l) bends 7 are reentrantly formed in theU-legs of bow'7,'so as normally, and despite the spring material'of which the bowy is made, ablypersist as shown in Figsl. y [f Mounted here upon-the lre'arof the bag are-three strips of preferably flexible mate# rial 8,-9 and=10. Strip :8' may be of'chamois,

strip 9'. also of chamois,`-' and y'strip Vl0 of leather. The strips are superposedone on another and are stitched to the bag asindicatedfat` 8il land 8b' in Fig. l. Here` stitching 8a is at the same time a part of the stitchingV that sevvs tape 6 to the bag.

While it is here desirable that thellnain portions of strips 8 and 9 and of cutting l each ,he `freely movable ,relativelyof yany of the others, for lens-polishing, strip v10 may have its central portion glued kor otherwise vice, is here vstitched to the bag as shown in, i 1 v A b'ref vexainina'ti'o'i'i' of the drawing, in the Llight of.l the contemplated advantages mentioned inpar'agraphs "and above, will Lmakeclear 'the presenceA of at least thosel advantages. The bow 7, at pres"- ent *viewed as the vmost important, feature Y of the invention V('vi'rhen combined with the flexible bag), is valuable 4in a multitude `of Ways It will be notedthat the flatn'ess of the'.v strip constituting here the'bow is'fal- Ways at right :angles to'theplane oftheilensv faces when a pair of eye-glasses isstoredin thebag. While the generally irregular conformation ofthe bag, resulting from the presence V'therein' ofsaid eye-glasses, coperates withfthe Vpreferably plushlikeouter surface of. the bag material -to absolutely prevent fthe bag from dropping froinan overturned open pocket, and While the same characteristics, aided by the pressure `ofthe bends 7-against the periphery of the mouthadjacent lens, Vpreventsabsol-utely vthe e'ye'- glasses from dropping from the container when placed upside down, the presence of the bowf alwaysgprevents breakage 'voit' the bags contents, for the cannot be bent except within the plane of the lensfaces and never, across such plane. Quick and easy insertion of a pair of eye-glasses into the bagis also rendered possible by the presence of bow 7 or upon slightly pressing the U-legs of the latter toward each other the mouth of the bag isrounded or fopened tothe desired degree. The presence of bow 7 aids, also, 4in a vpolishing operation, Yby maintaining the bag yieldablyspread into flatness, whetherl a lens being K polished between cuttings vland V2, between cutting l` and strip Y8, or between strips 8 and 9. e. urthensreat advantage resulte from the general structure, due to the fact that avery small piece of chamois, so small, indeed,

- thata Acollection of such pieces may be pur- 1 chased as chamois-scrap, when affixed to or termine partei@ bowplead beg 21S. just described, is quite as leiiicient 'for polishingV purposes as a large chamois sheet or a sub- V.division thereofof the ordinarily used di- -Inensions And. chamoisscrap is purchasable .at such; a loW price that at presentit is practically yal drug on the market, whereas *sheet chamois ish-ighly expensive.

The ring 12 or a suitable substitutefmay serve tofpermit lthe contaiiie'rto' o rd 11, what@ container fay'fevenf ybeifv'vrn when coat and te' eyeeglassforjtlier i pendel-ther kvisibly ansia@ afiavsiibiy la:

Side the shirt. "One-advantage "er ,thiafad due in nol small measure tothe lightness and nager aan; df assomme @gereageerd-m its,peculiarl cnstrution; is 'the avoidance" df 'any ife'essity gf Islet-@alga the' eyeglass cordarouiid a 'wearerps neck, 'a very'ffrequent" situation which ustas frequently leads to breaking-[f he glasses.

L, ot'vpasiyi, gefieri-cv are mn' maywifh' great 'lante-de otherwise' jteA employed, as, for instance, in a type''atraye-A glass container composed mainly of V'two flaps, each "constructed olil "some" flexible strip 'instal and buttonabl'e to said first ap, fvvhereby, there ybe safelyfs'to'red Avbei Ween-"th Wellens la Pfeil 'Ofyefeliee Here', too, it will its, eingearbeitet essen.

tialv elements, to fwit,V a fgenerally l ilexiblef` walled v'fontaine V'stiffening` 4skeletonstrip,arebothl employed. f i :If'l'I-lmff.: V 111A: deviibf'ae desde@ iig, lfbillioln, 'f/Hall Kili@ lppedbg of fflfXblev inKater'ial"y aj' ,Hat stiffenerfstrip laterne@ the baeand-whileafexine across the planef of'the flat'of the .bag 're siliny, ilegible within Saiapnne; [saii arie being .yinterinediatelyg bent yinto Y, a. reetrant angle which constitutes" a yieldabl'e nose Yextending .within thebag to Ayieldably narrow the 4width ofthek bagv intermediate 'the top and bottom thereof. f ,v

deviceo1 the class described, includ-VV ing, in combination, y.a latj openltoppedfba'g of flexible material, and a` Stillen'er-'s ftripl located within ,the bag and lyingfin substantial coincidence with the closedperiph-l A.

ery of the and ,inflexible kacross the: of the bag, said strip being substantially iio meme? Q U-shaped in the seid plane and each leg of New York and State of New York, this 29th the L) being intermediately provided With day of July, A. D. 1915. a. rentrant bend, the crests of the bends extending toward each other to narrow the y HENRY ,A HAYDEN' 5 Width of the bag intermediate the top and Witnesses:

bottom thereof. A. M. HENRY, Signed at New York, in the county of M. L. HENRY.

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